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Obama accuses Iran of evasion before Geneva talks
Sun Sep 27, 2009 2:19am EDT
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WASHINGTON/TEHRAN (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Saturday the discovery of a secret nuclear plant in Iran showed a "disturbing pattern" of evasion by Tehran that added urgency to its talks on Thursday with world powers.
Iran's ambassador to the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog said Tehran was arranging for International Atomic Energy Agency inspections at the site "in the very near future," although other Iranian officials struck a defiant note.
One said he hoped Iran's second nuclear enrichment site, under construction southwest of Tehran, would soon be ready to "blind" Iran's enemies.
But Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's ambassador to the IAEA, said he foresaw a quick visit to the site by agency inspectors, although he called the Obama administration's response to the plant's disclosure "discouraging" and a "political show."
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton welcomed Soltanieh's statement on IAEA inspections, telling reporters, "It is always welcome when Iran makes a decision to comply with the international rules and regulations and particularly with respect to the IAEA."
Iran, which says its nuclear program is aimed at electricity generation rather than weapons production as feared by the West, will meet the United States and five other powers in the Swiss city of Geneva on Thursday.
A senior U.S. administration official said the six powers were preparing "a set of transparency demands" focused on the secret uranium enrichment plant near Qom, a Shi'ite Muslim holy city south of Tehran.
"Those demands include unfettered access for the IAEA to the Qom facility, the people working there, and timelines related to its development," the official said.
"The timeline for this demand for this information about Qom will be weeks."
It is expected the demands will be presented to Iran at the Geneva meeting.
Obama warned Iran on Friday it would face "sanctions that bite" if it did not come clean.
"This is a serious challenge to the global non-proliferation regime and continues a disturbing pattern of Iranian evasion," he said in his weekly radio and Internet address on Saturday.
"That is why international negotiations with Iran scheduled for October 1 now take on added urgency," he said.
Britain, France and Germany have joined the United States in raising the prospect of new sanctions against Iran if it did not take steps to allay concerns about its nuclear program.
Russia also signaled a greater willingness to go along with sanctions, while China said it favored a "dual track" approach of pressure and talks. Continued...
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